Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Gr. archœol.: Any sacred place or consecrated site, inclosed or open. Hence A chapel or shrine.
- noun A sanctuary:
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A consecrated place; esp., a temple.
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- noun A
consecrated place , especially atemple .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This implies that the hieron was a precinct of some size.
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The scholiast to the _De Corona_ of Demosthenes [191] says that the "hieron" of Calamites, an eponymous hero, was close to the
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But "hieron" often refers to a sacred precinct, and there is nothing to prevent the verb in question from being used of a "hieron" in this sense.
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For although, as Strabo observeth of the Athenians, that publicly, by the authority of the magistrates, polla ton zenikon hieron paredexanto, "they received many things of foreign worships;" yet that none might attempt any such things of themselves is notorious from the case of Socrates, who, as
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Page 81 could not have been celebrated in the sanctuary εν Λίμναις, though portions of each of these divisions of the Anthesteria were held in the Lenaeum, which contained the Limnaea _hieron_.
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The location of the fourth _hieron_ of Thucydides can best be determined by means of the festivals, more particularly the dramatic festivals of Dionysus.
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A temple of this goddess was called [Greek: hieron Astartês] in a decree of Anisa
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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In the citation from Bekker's _Anecdota_ the Lenaeum is the hieron at which were held the theatrical contests.
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_Achar. _ 202 makes the Lenaeum the hieron of the Lenaean
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_Etymologicum Magnum_, that the Lenaeum contains a hieron of the Lenaean Dionysus.
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